Goggles.



F. WILLSON & N. BOURQUIN.

GOGGLES.

APPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1912.

1,108,,1 1L8, Patented July 14:, 1914.

UNllTiE "%TATE PAW @FWQE -FREDERICK WILLSON AND NUMA BOURQUIN, 0F READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGN- ORS T0 T. A. WILLSON & C0., INCORPORATED, 0F READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A

CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GOGGLES.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, FREDERICK WILLsON and NUMA BOURQUIN, both citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Goggles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to collapsible goggles, and it consists in the improved construction hereinafter fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 is 'a front view showing the lenses in spread position, one of the temples, with its shield, being fully opened, and the other partially folded. Fig. 2 shows the lenses folded one upon the other so as to permit of conveniently incasing the same. Fig. 3 is an edge view with parts in section and the outer portions of the temple wires broken away.

The enlarged lenses 2, 2 of our improved device are mounted'in separate frame eyes 3, 3, each formed of eye-wire with the usual spectacle temple-joints 4, 4 to which the temples 5, 5 are pivotally connected. An eye-shield 10, formed of leather or other flexible material cut to approximately trianv on March 26th, 1912.

gular shape, is secured to each lens by clamping the longer-edge portion 11 thereof between the eye-wire and the outer edge of the lens, while the projecting corner portion 12 thereof engages the adjoining temple 5 as shown at 6; the preferred construction indicated corresponding with that particularly described in Patent No. 1,021,175, is-

sued to T. A. Willson & Co, incorporated,

framed lenses are cooperatively connected These specially Specification of Letters Patent. Patentgdl July 141, 11914. I Application filed September 10,1912. Serial No. 719,524.

by means of a flexible-band bridge connection 15, which is secured at each of its ends between the inner edge of a lens and an inclosing eye-wire; a portion 16 of the latter, corresponding with the width of said band 15, being bent slightly outward so as to run substantially parallel with the edge of the lens at just asuflicient distance from the latter to permit of properly engaging the band between the off-setted wire and'the lens. This conveniently and economically made connection thus provides flexibility for practically the full distance between the edges of the lenses, thus practically enabling the latter to be readily set in place upon the face of the wearer over the usual spectacles or eye glasses, without unduly spreading the lenses. lVhen out of service the lenses are readily folded so as to bring their outer faces together, and the shields 10, 10 and temples 5, 5 parallel therewith, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to permit of compactly inclosing them in a neat and small sized casing.

We claim- A collapsible goggle comprising lenses having eye-wire framings, and a flexibleband bridge connection, each of said eye- Wires having an outwardly bent portion running parallel with the edge of the lens and forming a narrow passage-way for said flexible-band connection substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, we affix'our sigma-- tures, in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: v

D. M. STEWART, W. G. STEW'ART. 

